Pin-setter.



HJ. ANDERSON.

` PIN SETTER.

APPLlcATloN :meu oec. 5. 1912.

Patented June 22, Y1915.

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IHANS J. ANDEnsoN, or LAKEMILLS, WISCONSIN, AssIGNoR F ONE-HALF To GEORGE W. CARLETON, 0F LAKEMILLS, WISCONSIN.

PIN-SENER'.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une 22, 1915.

To all whom, it may conce/rn Be it known that I, HANS J ..Ai\'DERsoN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Lakemills", in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pin-Setters, of

which the following is a description, referthereof.

ence being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pin Setters of the automatic type for setting tenpins.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a pin setter which 'will automatically set the pins when the lowering mechanism is released and after the pins are set the lowering mechanism will swing to its upper receiving position.

A further object of the. invention is to provide a pin setter in which vthe lowering mechanism when swung to its upper position will receive and securely hold the pins inserted therein until the mechanism is again lowered.

A further object of.. the invention is to provide a pin setter which is strong and durable, is of simple construction andv may be manufactured at a minimum cost.

Vith the above and other4 objects in view,

the invention consists of the improved pinv setter and its parts and combinations as set forth in the claims, and all equivalents In the accompanying drawings in which the same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the views, Figure 1 is a side view of the improved pinsetter shown in its upper position, the view also indicating by dotted lines, the lower position of the setter; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the pin setter; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view thereof taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1; Fig. Il is a fragmentary side view of the front portion of the pin setter on a larger scale, the pin holding members also being indicated in open position by dotted lines; Fig. is a detail view of one of the setter standards;

and Fig. 6 is a sectional detail View showing manner of supporting one of the tenpins.

Referring to the drawings the numeral l0 indicates the vertical and 11 the horizontal portions of the frame or support to which the improved pin setter l2 is attached. This frame or support may be thefceiling and one of the side walls of a 4room or any other pins to supporting means desired to which the pin setter may be`connected. The pin setter comprises a horizontal triangular pin frame member 13 provided with pm openings 11 extending vertically therethrough. These openings are slightly larger than the largest diameter of the pins 15 to permit the said pass freely through the openings. The triangular pin frame member has two standards 16 extending upwardly from its opposite sides near the rear portion thereof to which are pivotally connected parallelogram arms 17 and 18.

In a vertical plane the arms on each side are parallel with relation to each other and their rear ends are pivoted to ears 19 projecting outwardly from the support 10. These arms with the standards and the support form a parallelogram connection between the triangular member and the support and provides for the said member always remaining in a horizontal plane while swinging from one position to another.

The upper arms 17 are extended forwardly and converge toward each other at the same angle as the triangular member and are connected together at their ends.. A

rope 20 connected to the forward convergedV ends of the upper arms extends upwardly and over a pulley 21 and has a counterweight 22 attached to its depending end which is adapted to swing the triangular member to its upper position when the said member is relieved of the weight of the tenpins.

In order to hold the triangular member in its upper position while holding the pins, a knob or button 23 is fastened to the rope and is adapted to snap over the shoulders 24 of a spring dog 25 depending from the horizontal portion 11 of the frame when the weight 22 pulls the button over the said shoulders. A trip cord 26 attachedto the lower end of the spring dog andextending to the rear portion of the frame and over a pulley 27 provides a means for tripping the dog to release the horizontal member when desired, from a place of safety. Pairs of pin holding members 28 extending transiro circular recesses 29 formed in the adjacent when. the said holders are in their upper closed positions. The recesses or openings 29 decrease in diameter toward their lower sides and are of less diameter than the largest 'diameter of the pins so that when the holders are in closed positions they will securely hold the pins inserted therein through the openings 14 and when the holders are swung to open positions the pins can freely pass therethrough.

The holding members are provided with short depending legs 30 and 31 which are pivotally connected to the side portions of a pair of horizontal actuating bars 32 and 33 extending longitudinally beneath the triangular member.

The legs 30 of one of the members of each pair of holding ymembers on one side of the respective openings or recessesA 29 thereof are all connected to the bar 32 and the legs 31 of the opposite members of said pair-sof members are all connected to the other bar 33 so that when said bars are moved longitudinally in opposite directions the holding members will be either opened or closed.

In moving longitudinally the bars will swing upwardly with the holding members toward their closed positions and the bars will be held in their upper positions by means ofspring dogs 34. These dogs are fastened to the lower side of the triangular frame and extend downwardly along the outer sides of the bars and are provided with shouldered portions 35 over which the bars 'snap when they' are swung to their upper positions and are .held thereby. The bar engaging faces of the shouldered portions taper downwardlv outwardly as indicated by the numeral 36 to permit the-bars to freely ride upwardly on said faces.

The outer rear corner portions of the triangular member have pivoted thereon bell crank levers 37 which are connected at their lower ends to the lower ends of the spring ldogs by horizontal rods or cords 38. The l,upper ends of the bell cranklevers have trip rods 39 connected thereto which extend upwardly from the said levers and through openings in projecting lugs-40, provided on the outer sides of the arms 17. Nuts 41 adjustably threaded on the upper ends of said trip rods 39 are adapted to engage said lugs 4when the triangular member is swung downwardly to pull on the dogs34 and release the horizontal bars 32 and 33.

-A bearing rod 42 mounted transversely on the forward portion of the triangular member carries bell Vcrank levers 43 and 44 on its opposite ends which have their lower ends pivotally and slidably connected to the forward ends of the horizontal bars 32 and openings registering with the 33. The lower ends of these levers are provided with elongated slots 45 to permit the horizontal bars to swing downwardly 1n swinging the holding members to open position. rThe upper legs of the bell crank levers 43 and 44 are provided at their outer ends with closing rods 46 which extend upwardly and pass through the eyed ends of a transverse bar 47 carried by the forward ends of the upper arms 17. These rods above the transverse bar '47 have nuts 48 threaded on their end portions' which engage the said transverse bar 47 to swing the' holding bars to closed positions when the triangular member is swung upwardly.

. members are closed and held locked in this position by means of the spring dogs engag-4 ing the horizontal bars. Tenpins are now inserted intofthe openings of the triangular pin frame member and the holding members and will be held thereby. The rope is now pulled to release the knob and the combined 11 weight ofthe setter andthe pins will overbalance the .counterweight and the setter will swing downwardly. In swinging downwardly the distance between the ltriangular frame and the inner ends of the upper arms will increase and the nuts of the trip rods will engage said upper arms and causethe dogs connected to said rods to release the horizontal bars and permit them to swing downwardly and horizontally and the holdl lng members to swing to open position and drop the pins on the floor. The setter is now relieved of the weight of the pins and the counterweight will pull the setter to its upper position and in swinging upwardly the horizontal bars and the holding members will be moved to-closed positions by the engagement of the nuts on the closing rods with the transverse bar of the upper arm, and the setter is again in position to receive the pins and to be again actuated in the manner before described.

From the foregoing'description it will be E seen that the pin setter is well adapted to perform' the function desired.

What I claim as my invention is: '1. A pin setter, comprising a support, a horizontally extending pin f'ame positioned adjacent thereto, a parallelogram connection between the support and the frame for mov ing and maintaining the pin frame in horizontal position, pin holders carried by the frame, means for normally holding the pin frame in an upper position and the pin holders in pin holding position, and means actuated by a downward movement of the pin 4frame for releasing the pins held by the pin holding members.

2. A pin setter, comprising a support, a horizontally7 extending pin frame positioned adjacent thereto, a Aparallelogram connection between the support and the frame 'for moyu lng and maintaining the pin frame in horizontal position, pinholders carried by the pin frame, means for moving the pin frame to an upper position when relieved of the weight of the pins, said pin frame adapted to be moved to a lower position by thev weight of the pins inserted therein, and means actuating the pin holders to release said pins when the pin frame is moved downwardly. v

`3. A pin setter, comprising a support, a

' horizontally extending pinl `frame positioned adjacent thereto, a parallelogram connection between the support and the frame for movlngand maintainingthe frame in horizontal position, means for moving the pin frame to an upper position when relieved of the weight of pins, pairs of pin holders hinged to the pin frame, Said pin frame adapted to be moved to a lower position by the weight of the pins inserted therein, and means actuating the pin holders to swing to open positionto release the pins when the pin frame is moved downwardly.

4. A pin setter, comprising a support, a horizontally extending pin frame positioned adjacent thereto, a parallelogram connection between the support and the frame for moving and maintaining the frame in horizontal position, means for moving the pin frame to an upper position when relieved of the weight of pins, pairs'of pin holders hinged to the pin frame, and provided with pin recesses and adapted to swing toward each other in pairs to pin holding position, means for locking the pin holders in pin holding positions, said pin frame adapted to be moved to its lower position bythe weight of the pins inserted in the pin recesses, and means for automatically unlocking the pin holding members to release the pins by the downward movement of the pin frame.

5. A pin setter, comprising a support, a horizontally extending pin frame positioned adjacent thereto, a parallelogram connection between the support and the frame for mov f ing and maintaining the frame in horizontal position, means for moving the pin frame to an upper position when relieved of theweight of pins, pairs of pin holders hinged to the pin frame, and provided with pin recesses and adapted to swing toward each other in pairs to pin holding position, hori-l zontal barspositioned beneath the pin frame and pivotally connected to the pin holders, dogs for holding said horizontal bars in locked positions, and means automatically actuating said dogs to release the horizontal bars when the pin frame is moved downwardly.

6. A pin setter, comprising a support, a

Ipin Vframeprovided with pin openings, a` `paralllelograml ,connection between the pin frame and theV support, pin holding members carried by the pin frame andv having pin recesses whichfregister with the openings of n pper' position when relieved of the weightpf thepins, said pin frame adapted tofbemoved to its lower position by the weight "of the pins inserted in the pin recesses, and means moved by the parallelogram connection vfor automatically actuatingthe vpinholding members to release the pins when theframe is moved downwardlyav 7. A-pinv setterfcomprising a support, a pinl frame provided with pin openings, a` parallelogram v"connection between the pin means -.for moving the pin frame and the support, pin holding members carried' by the pin frame and having pin recesses which register with the openings 'of the pinA `ra1jn`e',`,means for moving the pin frame to ern-upper position when relievedl of the weight of the pins, said pin frame adapted to be'moved to its lower position by the weight of the pins inserted in the pin recesses, horizontal bars pivotally connected to the pin holding members and adapted to swing said members to closed positions, means for moving said bars to close the pin holding members when the pin frame is.

frame and the support, pin holding mem-IV bers carried by the pin frame and having pin recesses which register with the openings of thepin frame, means for moving the pin frame to an upper position when relieved of the weight of the pins, said pin frame adapted to be moved to its lower position by the weight of the pins inserted in the pin recesses, horizontal bars pivotally connected to the pin holding members and adapted to swing said members to closed positions, bell crank levers carried by the pin frame and connected to the horizontal bars, rods connected to the bell crank levers and having a sliding connection with the parallelogram connection, stopsfor limiting the movement of said rods, dogs for holding the bars `in lclosed positions, other bell vcrank levers carried by the pin frame and on- Ytrolling the movement of the dogs, trip rods connected to these last mentioned bell crank levers and having a sliding connection with the parallelogram connection, and stops for limiting the movements of said trip rods.

9. A pin setter, comprising a support, a pin frame provided with pin openings, a

parallelogram arm connection between the pin frame and the support, pin holding bars hinged to the pin frame 1n palrs and having pin recesses registering with the frame openings, horizontal bars, each horizontal bar having a pivotal connection with one of the pin holding barsof each pair of pin holding bars, bell crank .levers carried by the frame and having connection with the horizontal bars, closing bars connected to the bell 'crank levers and having a sliding connection with the parallelogram connection, stops for limiting the sliding movement of said closing bars, dogs engaging the horizontal bars,

trip to the support and other bell crank levers carried by the pin frame and having a connection with the dogs, rods connected to the last mentioned bell crank levers and having a slidable connection with the parallelogram connection, stops for limiting the movement of said trip rods, a rope connected to the pin setter and rovided with a Weight for moving the pin rame to an upper position when the frame isrelieved of the Weight of pins, and a means engaging the rope for releasably holding the pin frame in its upper position when the pins are inserted in said frame.

ln testimony whereof, I aiiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

HANS J. ANDERSON.

Witnesses y E. C. BROWN,

O. B. CooMBs. 

